Browsing the archives for the extinct tag
The new Javan rhino sanctuary next to Ujung Kulon National Park now has an electric fence.
The plan to develop a second habitat for critically endangered Javan rhinos has made significant progress this week with the installation of an electric fence around the new sanctuary and breeding area.
A second critically endangered Javan rhino has been found dead in Indonesia.
Indonesia’s Ujung Kulon Park has lost another of its critically endangered Javan rhinos.
Re-introduction efforts are under way for black rhinos in Zambia.
Five black rhinos – one male and four females – have headed home to Luangwa National Park in Zambia. The rhinos are from Hluhluwe-uMfolozi Park and the Ithala game reserve in Northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
A second critically endangered Javan rhino carcass has been discovered – this time in Indonesia.
The world’s most threatened large mammal species, the Javan rhino, has suffered a second devastating loss: A carcass was discovered last week in Indonesia’s remote Ujung Kulon National Park.
Last month, one of just a handful of Vietnam’s Javan rhinos was [...]
In a devastating blow to rhino conservation efforts, poachers have killed a critically endangered Javan rhino.
Cat Tien National Park in Vietnam, home to the one of the world’s rarest mammals, is now the site of a heinous environmental crime: The murder of one of the world’s last Javan rhinos for its horn.
New information suggests that the Northern white rhino is a distinct species, not a subspecies.
An exciting new study has re-assessed the taxonomy of the Northern white rhino and the Southern white rhino – and found they are actually two distinct species.
This week’s book is The Return of the Unicorns: The Natural History and Conservation of the Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros by Eric Dinerstein.
Book Summary: The Return of the Unicorns chronicles the recovery of the greater one-horned rhino population in Nepal during the mid-1990’s through early 2000’s, and proposes a blueprint for large mammal conservation in Asia, [...]
Disturbing information indicates that China has imported an unusually high number of live rhinos from South Africa in order to harvest horns for so-called “medicinal” purposes.
As Asian demands for rhino horn continue to undermine decades of rhino conservation, an alarming report has revealed that China is “farming” rhinos for horns – an appalling practice that [...]
This week’s book is “Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn: The Destruction of Wildlife for Traditional Chinese Medicine” by Richard Ellis.
Book Summary: Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn examines the atrocities inflicted upon wildlife populations to satisfy demands for “traditional Chinese medicine” (TCM). Factual evidence gleaned from TRAFFIC surveys and reports, grim personal accounts, and numerous historical [...]
This week’s book is “Black Market: Inside the Endangered Species Trade in Asia” by Ben Davies.
Book Summary: Black Market: Inside the Endangered Species Trade in Asia is a shocking portrait of the plundering of endangered species destined for Asia’s illegal wildlife markets. Asia’s insatiable appetite for endangered wildlife products, combined with the region’s relentless [...]
